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In May, Tita Chico participated in the Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar at New College, Oxford University, originally planned to be hosted in Oxford, then later moved online. Dr. Chico was also scheduled to be a Senior Research Fellow at New College during their Trinity Term, 2020.

As Editor-in-Chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop Culture, Dennis L. Winston oversaw the publication of two issues of the journal this year: "Spaces and Places" (v7, i1): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf-y8m9a and the special issue, "Street Lit" (v7, i2): https://wblinc.org/publications/2016/3/23/blog-post-sample-4lehf

Mal Haselberger recently published a short article, "The Feminist Possibilities of Print: Jane Grabhorn's Jumbo Press" on the Alphabettes blog, a "showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design." The work was originally presented at the American Printing History Association Conference in 2019 which was hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park.

This Spring, lecturer Alexandra Calloway successfully adapted an innovative classroom project for her Technical Writing class funded by a grant from the Writing Program in order to meet the demands of new circumstances imposed by the COVID pandemic.

Jess Enoch edited a "Cluster Conversation" in the journal Peitho that is dedicated to the centennial memorializations dedicated to the passing of the 19th Amendment--women's right to vote. The title of the conversation is "The Suffrage Centennial: How, Why, and on What Terms Should We Mark this Moment?" UMD PhD student Katie Bramlett contributed an essay to the conversation "Stories of Filipinia Suffrage: Remembering Marginal Histories in Colonial Contexts." https://cfshrc.org/peitho-journal/

Shannon Zellars-Strohl will be delivering an invited talk for the University of Western Washington entitled "Jane Eyre and Zombies: Reimagining the Victorian Colonial Space in Jane Eyre, I Walked with a Zombie, and Wide Sargasso Sea" in June 2020.

Joseph will present at the Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Conference (July 24-25, 2020). His presentation is titled "The University Ethos and Economic Development," which is based on a chapter of his forthcoming dissertation.

This Spring, Michael Olmert was selected to serve as an affiliate with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, lectured on J.L. Carr.'s novel, A Month in the Country, and peer reviewed an article for Speculum.

Gerard Holmes published “‘Invisible, as Music –’: What the Earliest Musical Settings of Emily Dickinson’s Poems, Including Two Previously Unknown, Tell Us about Dickinson’s Musicality,” in the fall / winter 2019 issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal, Volume 28, no. 2.